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Low-fares airline Flyglobespan has become Dublin Airport’s newest customer after announcing plans to start flights to Calgary and Vancouver from May.

The new long-haul flights are an unexpected boost for the airport, which has suspended its long-haul route incentive scheme indefinitely.

The suspension of that scheme makes Dublin less attractive to most international airlines, but the launch of the Flyglobespan flights was unaffected because their flights only run twice-weekly and flights must run at least three times a week to be included in Dubin’s now defunct scheme.

source: independent.ie

JetBlue Airways has filed for authority to fly between Fort Lauderdale and Bogota, Colombia, which if granted, would reshape the low-fare marketplace to Latin America.

The airline’s plan calls for seven weekly Bogota flights from Fort Lauderdale beginning next Oct. 1, as well as seven from Orlando, starting next April.

source: Sun Sentinel

More than 20 low cost airlines now fly from Portuguese airports, and this number continues to grow. As of the 28th of this month, Lisbon airport will be host to 12 low-cost airlines, and Oporto will introduce new companies and new routes.

Eight low-cost companies currently operate from Oporto, which will soon be connected to Milan (Malpensa) courtesy of new-introduction Volareweb.com, and three new routes, to Stockholm, Pisa and Valencia, will also soon be available through Ryanair.

Lisbon will be expanding its routes with the arrival of its newest low-cost airline SkyEurope, which will be flying to Vienna, as well as introducing a new route to Seville, as of December, courtesy of Spanish company Vueling.

source: News Online

Budget airline bmibaby has announced the launch of services from Cardiff to Warsaw and the port of Gdansk in the wake of a growing Polish immigration.

Flights went on sale today with fares starting from just £21.99 one way, including all taxes and charges.

The new route to Warsaw starts with a three times a week service operating from Cardiff on Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays, commencing on February 10.

Flights to Gdansk run twice weekly from Cardiff, departing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with flights beginning on February 9.

source: icWales

Romanian low-cost airline Blue Air has started its new direct service between Stansted Airport and Bucharest.

Blue Air said return flights will start from £1.50 excluding tax, and will operate twice daily on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

“‘This is a new direct link and is the first of a number of new route launches set to start from here this month,'” Nick Barton, from Stansted, said.

source: BBC

Hermes Airports announced that Pafos International Airport has been selected as one of eight new routes for Summer 2008 to be operated by UK low cost airline Jet2.com, based at Leeds Bradford Airport. New services between Leeds Bradford and Pafos will start on Sunday 4 May 2008.

source: Finantial Mirror

Low-cost airline Sky Europe is to launch new direct flights from Bulgaria to 11 European capitals and major cities in October 2007, the airline’s commercial director, Karim Maklouf, said on Monday.

The company will operate daily flights to Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Innsbruck and Warsaw.

source: Spero News

Norwegian, Scandinavia’s largest low fares airline, will start a new route from London-Gatwick to Stavanger from the 2nd of November. The route will initially be served with four weekly frequencies and is Norwegian’s sixth route from London.

source: Easier

Budget airline Ryanair said on Thursday it was ready to launch 80 routes to two Milan airports, stepping in as struggling Alitalia cuts back in Italy’s industrial heartland. Europe’s biggest low-cost carrier is prepared to use an additional 12 airliners at Milan’s Malpensa airport and another six at Serio airport in Bergamo, company spokesman Peter Sherrard told a news conference.

source: Turkish Daily News

Air Berlin will open a new route from London Stansted to Munich on 5 November 2007. The airline will fly twice daily from Monday to Friday and once on Saturday and Sunday.

source: earthtimes.org